St Oswalds

Process

Top Five

Community

• Maintain and extend our existing strong sense of community within the parish as a basis for future growth.

Information and Communication

• Establish and maintain effective communications with the broader community through electronic and media sources.

Outreach & Renewing Age Profile

• Establish a strategy to reach out to the community and to reach younger people.
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OUTREACH & RENEWING AGE PROFILE

• Engagement with hall hirers clientele (Carol & all of us)
• Mainly Music/Messy Church (Vicar)
• Christmas Children's Service
• Book Sales, Fetes, Anglicare Collection etc. (Parishioners)
• Christian Festivals (Parishioners )
• Local schools (Solway)

Purpose, Mission, Strategy

• (Continue) To develop a very clear and agreed “Mission Action Plan” which captures the purpose and vision we have for a developing faith community at St Oswald’s (MAP committee)

Growing in Faith

• Develop leaders from within the church community to foster programmes for spiritual growth according to according to different faith expressions • Gradually implement programs for spiritual growth .

GROWING IN FAITH

• Silent Retreats (Vicar)
• Bible Studies (Vicar)
• Morning Prayer (Vicar)
• Worship - look at 10am more lay involvement. (Worship committee).
• Residential Retreats - 1 per year (Keith)
• Wellspring and other Events. (Keith)
• Evensong at st Yarra. (Keith)
• Evensong here occasionally. (Peter)
• EFM - 2016 - investigate possibility. (Keith)

WHERE TO NOW?

• Drivers
• Priorities
• 2016 plan
• Recruitment
• Training

RECONCILIATION ACTION PLAN

• Key suggested actions: • Guided walk by an Elder locally or further afield in our Diocese • Invite the Aboriginal Liaison Officer to our parish to tell us about her work and review our action plans • A presentation to the parish on the Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) of the Diocese • Promote the RAP and NAIDOC and key activities on our website • Organize trip to Nungalina College, Darwin

RECONCILIATION ACTION PLAN

• Develop Advocacy Plan for reconciliation in our local community • Healing garden development. • Engage Melbourne Grammar indigenous students in garden and telling their stories. • Visit the Community Healing Centre at Lilydale?? started by Janet Turpie-Johnston • Join the Koorie Heritage Trust • Invite Shannon Smith, Oakleigh Anglican Priest, to visit and share her story. •Possible visit to a remote community in NT, WA or Qld